➢ I think it would be a good idea to try to reach all contributers (I ➢ assume a mail address is present) and get them to the new (still to be ➢ completed) plugin portal.
Just to say smth about that. From round about 10 plugin author, that I tried to contact about aourcecode and other stuff, maybe half of it answered me. I don’t know it exactly, but this is not that possible, that everyone will response or can, because of no access to the mail address anymore or discontinueing work or whatever reason. Just to let you know, I tried it several times. Cheers Chris Von: Matthias Bläsing Gesendet: Montag, 18. November 2019 18:40 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] What to do with old community contributed plugins? Hi, Am Dienstag, den 12.11.2019, 13:51 +0100 schrieb Jiří Kovalský: > we are preparing decommission of the old Plugin Portal 2.0 [1] which > is hosted on Oracle infrastructure. Before we turn off the switch we > need to decide what we want to do with the plugins contributed by all > the kind NetBeans community members over the years totaling ~20 GB. I > believe that we don't want to just delete these NBM files. > > [1] http://plugins.netbeans.org/ > > The problem here is the restriction that we can't use Apache > infrastructure to host any 3rd party binaries. The only thing what we > could potentially do is to publish module catalogs with references to > some other publicly accessible places. > > Any opinions on what is the right thing to do? > I think it would be a good idea to try to reach all contributers (I assume a mail address is present) and get them to the new (still to be completed) plugin portal. I would not host the plugins anywhere. If I remember correctly the plugin portal was a wild mix of licenses and so from my perspective this is a dangerous endeavour. For example take a GPLed plugin, you'd need the source code to redistribute it properly. This is totally different, to the code donation from oracle. Even if we end up not integrating all donated code, it is still usable (i.e. later intergrated or used outside Apache NetBeans). The same does not hold true for all plugins. Oracle could think about creating a static site, that way the plugins would still be accessible, could be transfered to a passive file host and be done. Greetings Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
